Third International Conference on Minority Languages : Celtic papers
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Third International Conference on Minority Languages : Celtic papers
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 32）
Multilingual Matters, 1987
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This volume contains a selection of papers on various aspects, mainly linguistic, of the present day situation of the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. The papers were given at the Third International Conference on Minority Languages, which was held in Galway, Ireland in June 1986. A companion volume, entitled Third International Conference on Minority Languages: General Papers is also published by Multilingual Matters Ltd.
Table of Contents
1. G.M. Awbery: The Position of the Welsh Language in Wales
2. Beth Thomas: Accounting for Language Maintenance and Shift: Socio-historical Evidence from a Mining Community in Wales
3. William Gillies: Scottish Gaelic - The Present Situation
4. Kenneth MacKinnon: Gender, Occupational and Educational Factors in Gaelic Language-Shift and Regeneration
5. Gabrielle Maguire: Language Revival in an Urban Neo-Gaeltacht
6. Donall P. O Baoill: Phonological Borrowing in Irish and Problems of Orthographical Representation
7. John Harris & Lelia Murtagh: Irish and English in Gaeltacht Primary Schools
8. Michie Akutagawa: A Linguistic Minority under the Protection of its own Ethnic State: A Case Study in an Irish Gaeltacht
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